Words the Bible translates as siege works
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- metsurahמְצוּרָהfortifications: the walls, ramparts, and earthworks that make a town defensible, and the matching works an army raises around a city it is shutting in
- matsodמָצוֹדa hunting net: the gear that closes on a catch, and so a picture of being taken with no way out.
+1 more meaning
- a fortification: the works an army raises around a city it is besieging, or the fortified place people are kept safe in or shut up in.
- dayeqדָּיֵקa siege wall: the structure an attacking army builds around a city to seal it off, and not the earth ramp heaped up against the city wall
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